Word: diced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when she is befriended by Simon, known as the Big Fisherman, a simple, kindly man who becomes a follower of the religious teachings...
John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State, in 1821 begged Congress to let him "consult with foreign nations for the future and ultimate establishment of universal and permanent uniformity" in measurements. No dice...
...price of this pre-eminence has been a degree of paternalism that makes Harvard students sit up and take notice. From 1755, when King's College--the original name for Columbia--rules decreed that "none of the pupils shall fight Cocks, play at Cards, Dice or any unlawful game;" to 1946, when the college was able to dominate the Columbia Spectator, Columbia's daily newspaper; and to 1947, when college officials refused to let a student group sponsor a talk by Howard Fast, convicted of contempt of a Congressional committee, only the degree and not the spirit of deans office...
...dogcatcher without my help . . ." But these honest outbursts of rage & envy have been infrequent. Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo worshiper using "Fast Dice...
Cunning. When Bill Boone and his wife enter the story they run off with it. Bill is short, stocky, cocky, with "a good-looking squarish face," now somewhat puffy, always getting in fights, which he always loses. He is an expert with dice, and has a pathetic eagerness for a respectable job that makes him vulnerable to his wife's malice. Bill is dragged out of a bar, sobered up, and hired as Pineboro's only salaried fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother...